Censuses and interrogations as instruments of power in political communication in Spain in the 16th-18th centuries
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Abstract
Censuses and interrogations of the population constitute an important instrument of political communication. With this as our starting point, this study aims to make a historical review of state censuses and interrogations in Spain during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and then analyze the relationship between information and power during the Enlightenment – a time that we consider of special interest to analyze the means of political communication to which we refer.
Keywords:
Census, Interrogations, Political Communication.
